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19 July
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Jayant Narlikar
Indian astrophysicist.
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The Government of India nationalised fourteen major commercial banks on 19 July 1969, a major structural change in the country's banking system.
Bank Nationalization 1969: The Political Move That Reshaped Indian Banking
At the stroke of midnight in July 1969, a secret ordinance was drafted that would wrestle control of India's wealth from a few elite families. Discover the inside…
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